Internet: 2000s | CommuniCrossings

2000: Year 2000 problem (Y2K); How the Year 2000 Problem Worked; Top 10 Doomsday Prophecies: 2: Y2K
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" ~George W. Bush
"Why the future doesn't need us" by Bill Joy: "Our most powerful 21st-century technologies -- robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech -- are threatening to make humans an endangered species."; Wired magazine full article; April 2000
"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human." ~John Naisbitt
dot-com bubble speculative period covering roughly 1997?2000; 10 Biggest IPO Flops in History; 10 Tech Companies That Totally Imploded
PayPal: Online money transfers; How PayPal Works
CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart; How CAPTCHA Works; CAPTCHArt; spambot
Time to Kill Off Captchas; Use It Better: 8 Alternatives to the Hated Captcha 2/28/2012
Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time 2/29/2011
2001: Wikipedia: free Internet encylopedia, Wiki; How Wikis Work
Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen late to support editing from phone/tablets; 2/9/2014
Wikipedia China Becomes Front Line for Views on Language and Culture editors from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in a region charged with political, ideological and cultural differences; 10/27/2013
The Decline of Wikipedia the sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who generally work under pseudonyms and habitually bicker with each other; 10/22/2013
Mac OS X Apple; 10.0: Cheetah; 10.1: Puma; 10.2: Jaguar; 10,3: Panther; 10.4: Tiger; 10.5: Leopard; 10.6: Snow Leopard; 10.7: Lion; 10.8: Mtn. Lion; 10.9: Mavericks; 10.10: Yosemite
Apple Quiz; How Mac OS X Works; How Operating Systems Work; Mac OS X Turns Ten Years Old 3/24/2011
"Web 2.0" emphasis on interaction, collaboration; to be supplanted by Web 3.0 -- with focus on meaning, e.g., Semantic Web, -- in future?
Drupal this site; whitehouse.gov: Content Management System (CMS), Content Management; List of CMS; How Information Architecture Works
Vonage: Voice Over IP; How VoIP Works
Swindlers Use Telephones, With Internet's Tactics 1/20/2014
AT&T's 'IP Transition' Will Make U.S. Broadband Even Less Competitive 3/3/2014
F.C.C. Chairman Calls for Transforming the Technology Used by Phone Systems move landline infrastructure from analog Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) to digital VOIP; 11/19/2013
BitTorrent: peer-to-peer file sharing; How BitTorrent Works
The Pirate Bay 2003: founded in Sweden; facilitates peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol
Attacking Tor: how NSA targets users' online anonymity Secret servers and privileged position on the internet's backbone used to identify users and attack computers; 10/4/2013
What Does My Internet Provider See When I'm Downloading Torrents? 12/21/2011
2002: Friendster: social networking service 2011: reinvented as social gaming site
Friendster to Erase Early Posts and Old Photos 4/27/2011
2003: LinkedIn; MySpace: social networking service; What is a social networking site?
How LinkedIn Works; How MySpace Works; MySpace Quiz
What are the pros and cons of social networking sites?; Do social networking sites improve your ability to network in real life?
cyberbullying; Is cyberbullying getting out of control?; Are social networking sites addictive?; Are there cliques on social networking Web sites?
Internet Privacy 101 - Your Safety Guide to Social Networking; Why do people share embarrassing information online?
How Chat Rooms Work; How to Start a Social Networking Site; Top 10 Social Networking Sites for Parents
Are you too old for social networking?; What happens to all my social networking information when I die?
How to Use Social Networking for Your Business; How do social networking sites make money?; Are social networks good for job productivity?
Secret revealed: inside the most scandalous social network will anonymity make Secret essential reading ? or become its undoing? 2/17/2014
The History of Social Media infographic; 1/24/2011
The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace 6/22/2011
WordPress: blog software; How to Become a Blogger
Second Life: online virtual world; How Second Life Works
iTunes, iPod Apple; How iTunes Works; How iPods Work
Skype: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP); How to Use Skype; Skype vs. Vonage; Will the landline phone become obsolete?
Safari: web browser
CAN-SPAM Act; How E-mail Marketing Works: Permission, E-mail Marketing Scams and the CAN-SPAM Law
Number Resource Organization (NRO) Regional Internet Registry (RIR); NRO site
Anonymous loosely associated international network of activists and hacktivists; well-known for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites
Hacktivism; Denial of Service Attack make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users; How Anonymous Works
Cross Site Scripting computer security vulnerability that enables attackers to inject client-side script into Web pages
Digital Attack Map DDoS Attacks Happening Across the World Right Now
What Is a DDoS Attack? 4/3/2013
How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down 7/3/2012
2004: Facebook; How Facebook Works; Myths; Quiz; How to Use Facebook
How to Avoid Facebook Scams; Can Facebook make me rich?
The Social Network 2010 film
Still on Facebook, but Finding Less to Like fewer teenagers; 11/16/2013
Gmail: email service; How Gmail Works
Firefox: web browser; How Firefox Works; How do I update my Internet browser?
Flickr, Picasa: photo sharing; How Photo Sharing Works
MyDoom email worm; Worst Computer Viruses (#4); How Zombie Computers Work: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Podcasts; How Podcasting Works; How to Create Your Own Podcast; video: 1:20
World of Warcraft (WoW): massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG); How World of Warcraft Works; Quiz
2005: YouTube: video hosting service; How YouTube Works
How to Download YouTube Videos; How to Add a Video to YouTube
Google Earth, Google Maps: web mapping; location-based service; location awareness
Mashup web application hybrid; uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single graphical interface
geo-fence a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic areas
How Google Earth Works; Did Google Maps cause an international border dispute?
The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google?s mapping empire 2/28/2014
Google's Road Map to Global Domination profile of Google Maps, an integral part of the company's future location-aware products; 12/11/2013
NJ gamblers along borders may be locked out of Internet gaming -- unless they move geo-fencing; 11/17/2013
5 Maps That Could Help Solve Some of the World?s Most Daunting Problems crowd sourced maps; 11/14/2013
Hadoop: big data; data mining; How Data Integration Works: Data Warehouses
The World of Big Data: Part 1, Part 2 10/31/2013
How Quantum Computers and Machine Learning Will Revolutionize Big Data distributed parallelism; 10/14/2013
Improving the Big Data Toolkit 9/17/2013
FiOS Verizon; internet, telephone, TV over Fiber-Optic network; How FiOS Works
Pandora Radio; How Pandora Radio Works
net neutrality
Net neutrality, Net neutrality in US principle that ISPs and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication
Bandwidth cap limits the transfer of a specified amount of data over a period of time. Internet service providers commonly apply a cap when a channel intended to be shared by many users becomes overloaded, or may be overloaded, by a few users. Implementation of a bandwidth cap is sometimes termed a Fair Access Policy, Fair Usage Policy or Usage-based billing; contrast with "bandwidth gap" (aka digital divide)
issues recognized earlier; regulation by FCC, legislation formalized to address; Net Neutrality Primer
for example: your ISP blocking/slowing competitor's video streaming or VOIP(phone) service
Proponents: consumer advocates, human rights organizations, online companies and some technology companies
Arguments for: Control of data; Digital rights and freedoms; Competition and innovation; Preserving Internet standards; Preventing pseudo-services; End-to-end principle
Opponents: hardware companies and members of the cable and telecommunications industries; anti-regulatory organizations
Arguments against: Privacy concerns; Innovation and investment; User welfare; Counterweight to server-side non-neutrality; Bandwidth availability; Opposition to legislation
The Internet is F### (but we can fix it) the internet is a utility; 2/25/2014
Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong not really about net neutrality; 2/23/2014
FCC Plans to Issue New ?Net Neutrality? Rules 2/19/2014
Netflix performance on Verizon and Comcast has been dropping for months 2/10/2014
Paying to Travel in the Internet?s Fast Lanes 2/2/2014
How the FCC Lost Net Neutrality and Could Kill the Internet FCC imposed so-called 'common carrier' regulations on broadband providers without officially classifying them as utilities; 1/15/2014
What's Net Neutrality? What Happened to Net Neutrality Yesterday? What Happens Next? A Q&A for the Rest of Us. 1/15/2014
The Nuts and Bolts of Network Neutrality NYT; Q&A; 1/14/2014
AT&T's Sponsored Data is bad for the internet, the economy, and you 1/6/2014
Whither Net Neutrality? new FCC chairman appears to waffle on a key component of an open Internet: high-priced express lanes on the information superhighway might be OK; 12/23/2013
Verizon's diabolical plan to turn the Web into pay-per-view They want to charge websites for carrying their packets, but if they win it'd be the end of the Internet as we know it; 9/12/2013
5 ways to stay below your data cap on Android and iOS 9/5/2013
Online throttling and site-blocking to be outlawed in Europe under net neutrality plan 6/4/2013
Senator introduces bill to regulate data caps Wyden; metering allowed only for congestion control; discriminatory data caps banned; 12/20/2012
FCC Final Rule: Preserving the Open Internet 9/23/2011
- "transparency: fixed and mobile broadband providers must disclose the network management practices, performance characteristics, and commercial terms of their broadband services.
- no blocking: fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices; mobile broadband providers may not block lawful websites, or block applications that compete with their voice or video telephony services.
- no unreasonable discrimination: fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic."
2006: Twitter: social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters
How Twitter Works; Myths; Quiz; Tweetups
"Wikileaks' silencing was sought by antidemocratic governments worldwide -- including China, whose censors work mightily to block all access to the site. Wikileaks' plug was pulled, ironically, not in China, but by a federal judge in San Francisco." ~Peter Scheer
WikiLeaks publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources
examples: 2010: Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning; 2013: Edward Snowden; whistleblowers or traitors?
The Fifth Estate 2013 film
Is This the WikiEnd? Assange; financing; 11/6/2011
Lawmaker reintroduces WikiLeaks prosecution bill Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination (SHIELD); 2/16/2011
Hillary Clinton's speech: Shades of hypocrisy on internet freedom Other governments' censorship vs. US censorship of Wikileaks; 2/15/2011
Secrets and Transparency What is Wikileaks, and what is its future? 1/26/2011
Facing Threat From WikiLeaks, Bank (BofA) Plays Defense 1/3/2011
Pentagon to Troops: Taliban Can Read WikiLeaks, You Can?t 8/6/2010
2007: iPhone: smart phones; iPod Touch with internet access; How the iPhone Works; Quiz; How the iPod touch Works
T-Mobile Turns an Industry on Its Ear pricing, data plans; 2/26/2014
Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my iPhone replaces 13 items; 1/14/2014
And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone' 10/4/2013
iPhone Patent Wars: Xerox PARC & the Apple, Inc. Macintosh innovator, duplicator & litigator; 8/9/2013
"There?s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance...It doesn?t appeal to business customers, because it doesn?t have a keyboard" ~Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
Android mobile operating system
F-Secure: Android accounted for 97% of all mobile malware in 2013 3/4/2014
Google Docs: cloud computing: distributed computing; office suites; How Cloud Computing Works; How Google Docs Works
Cutting Through the Cloud 9/22/2013
Kindle: e-book reader; How the Amazon Kindle Works; OLLI Course: E-Books: Kindle
Hulu: streaming media; How Hulu Works
QR (Quick Response) code: mobile tagging, location-based/-aware; How 2-D Bar Codes Work
2008: Internet 2008 in numbers 1/22/2009; Internet Usage Growth Rate by Region
"Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred."
Dropbox: cloud storage, backup; file hosting; How Cloud Storage Works; How the Dropbox Mobile App Works
Why Do So Many People Fail to Back Up? 6/14/2013
A User's Guide to Finding Storage Space in the Cloud Google Drive; Microsoft Skydrive; Dropbox; SugarSync; 5/17/2012
Netflix (streaming): streaming media; binge watching/viewing
How Netflix Works; How Internet TV Works
Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain Using Amazon?s Cloud recommendation engine; 2/13/2014
Blockbuster, Outdone by Netflix, Will Shut Its Stores and DVD Mail Service 11/6/2013
The cords are losing: Netflix overtaking HBO in paid U.S. subscribers 10/21/2013
In Digital Era, What Does 'Watching TV' Even Mean? study Suggests More Time Spent on Smartphones, Computers, Tablets Than Television; 10/8/2013
HTML5: markup language for web pages; How HTML5 Works
Web apps: the future of the internet, or an impossible dream? 8/16/2013
Will HTML5 kill the mobile app? 7/20/2011
Google Chrome: web browser; How the Google Chrome Browser Works
2009: Internet 2009 in numbers 1/22/2010
Kickstarter: threshold pledge system, crowd funding; How Kickstarter Works
Understanding crowdfunding's caveats: part 1, part 2 3/2/2014
Bitcoin: digital currency, micropayment; -- or, commodity; collectible; Ponzi scheme; political ideology? unknown individual, or group, known as 'Satoshi Nakamoto', bitcoins exist only in digital form and can be bought with traditional money through the Internet. New bitcoins are ?mined? by programmers solving complex math problems
The Face Behind Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, reclusive inventor of the troubled virtual currency, hiding in plain sight? 3/6/2014
For Bitcoin, Secure Future Might Need Oversight 3/5/2014
Tokyo Bitcoin Exchange Files for Bankruptcy Mt. Gox; $500M+ stolen; bitcoin value now below $500, from Nov. $1200 high; 2/28/2014
Regulators and Hackers Put Bitcoin to the Test 2/17/2014
The Bitcoin-Mining Arms Race Heats Up 1/9/2014
Bitcoin Is Evil Krugman; stable store of value vs. medium of exchange; 12/28/2013
A Quick and Complete History of Bitcoin So You're Not Totally Lost infographic; 12/15/2013
Bitcoin under pressure The Economist; 11/30/2013
Bitcoin Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Future of Money Wired; 11/25/2013
In Bitcoin's Orbit: Rival Virtual Currencies Vie for Acceptance 11/24/2013
A Bitcoin Puzzle: Heads, It's Excitement. Tails, It's Anxiety. NYT; governments and investors are struggling to get a grip on the future of the virtual currency - not to mention its present; 11/23/2013
A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity Silk Road; 11/17/2013
2009: Man Buys 5000 Bitcoins For $27, Forgets About Them. 2013: Man Rediscovers His Bitcoins, Now Worth $886,000 10/29/2013
Square Cash lets anyone with a debit card send money instantly over email 10/15/2013
How Bitcoin Works; Should Bitcoin Be Illegal? 10/2/2013
I have my doubts about Bitcoin 9/30/2013
Bitcoin's role in the future of micropayments 9/30/2013
Fund to Let Investors Bet on Price of Bitcoins Second Market; 9/25/2013
The Decades That Invented the Future: Part 11: 2000s iPhone; Human Genome; Instagram; Rise of the Drones; Hadoop (search server software); Connected Cars; Sep. 11th; Nintendo Wii; Apple (design); Doping (sports); Facebook; Social Media; 2/1/2013
Computing Timelines: 2000s
InfoWorld Technology of the Year: 2004-2010